Shadowing Practice: Kourtney Kardashian Tries To Convince Her Sisters To Live A Healthier Lifestyle | KUWTK | E! - Learn English Speaking with Video

Oh, damn.

Oh, shit.

What's up?

Oh, my God.

You're on fire today.

Holy shit.

I haven't seen you in an outfit like this in a long time.

What?

Yeah.

I'm proud you picked it out.

I love it.

He sent me, like, a whole email.

Like, you cannot wear big glasses anymore.

That's it?

Tiny little glasses.

Where did he come up with that?

I don't know.

He sent me, like, millions of 90s photos with tiny little glasses like that.

You are an artistic person.

I'm not.

Actually, it lied.

Oh, my God.

Thank you.

Very strong.

I was so annoyed that Courtney canceled her workout this morning.

Did she really?

Yeah, because she wasn't feeling well.

But she literally will never take medicine, never do anything.

Never do anything.

Never give a kid a citizen.

So is it holistic?

Oh, what's up?

Hi.

I'm freezing.

I know.

Do you want to get the check?

Yeah, let's get the check.

Where have you been?

I can't eat anyways.

Why can't you eat?

By the way, you know it's a rule.

You still have to come on time.

Why can't you eat?

I'm not eating because when you're getting sick, it's best to not eat.

Okay.

Knock it out.

Some drinking apple lemon ginger cayenne juice.

I had a bone broth.

And if I got hungry, I would have like apple cider vinegar and water.

Since I've been working out with my bodybuilder, Melissa, I've really focused so much on how I eat now and how to eat really clean and healthy.

And I've realized just how many fad diets there are out there.

And I feel like Courtney's always trying something new and different.

And I just don't know if it's the healthiest.

Luca's here.

Are you friends with him?

Mm-hmm.

He just got here.

I should have told him to come to lunch, except that I was here for one minute.

Bless.

Oh, my brother.

It's Abraham.

Hey.

Look who's here.

It's in bed.

Hey, Abe.

I'm Ben.

I was with Dream yesterday, and she was not happy.

I know.

She's teething.

Yeah.

It felt so bad.

But everybody was, little Rob, it's Rob in a dress.

Khadijah and Melissa Polker, they were like dying over her.

That's why I call her Roberta.

Where are you?

I'm at Pierce College going to my class.

Rob.

OK.

Love you, Rob.

Love you guys.

Chloe, do you want a frozen banana?

No, I don't like those things.

What is that?

It's like a lemon dessert.

But remember I told you, you're not supposed to eat processed foods in general.

So is this cookie processed?

Yes.

Right?

Does nilas come from a farm?

No, we shouldn't be eating it.

For example, there is great almond milks that exist in life.

Chocolate almond milk.

Have your chef make almond milk fresh once a week.

She made me make it.

No, they put them in the Vitamix and they make vanilla.

It's fresh and it's all organic almonds and stuff.

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Sometimes preservatives taste just that much better, though.

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No, trust me, my almond milk is good.

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OK, let's get it together.

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Sarili bagels, I see you, Kim.

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You're right up my alley with this fridge.

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That's just so gross to give your kids.

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Everything you think you know, I just read an article that says that gluten-free diets actually have more arsenic in them and could be worse for you.

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Arsenic is like a fire, right?

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Hold on, poison.

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Arsenic and rice, did you know that?

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The organs of the body that are usually affected by arsenic poisoning are the lungs, skin.

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Maybe that's why your skin is so bad.

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Chloe, but your skin is horrible.

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That's probably why.

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You guys.

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What?

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Obviously, I am the healthiest eater in the Kardashian-Jenner clan.

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Kim and Khloe like to give me a hard time about it, but they're so behind on information, they just find it funny.

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The reason why people can get arsenic poisoning is because they substitute gluten-free foods with either corn or rice.

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So you're eating more rice than normal?

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Really?

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I love rice.

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Like, love.

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Like, white on rice.

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White on rice?

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I love it like white on rice.

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Okay, good.

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Why is that a saying?

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I don't know what that even means, because there's brown rice too.

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So I love it like brown on rice.

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Exactly, and black rice.

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And there's like red rice.

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Ooh, ugly. Should we start preheating?

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The oven for the cookies?

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I need one bite.

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It's like that?

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You could eat it raw?

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Yeah, because it has no eggs because it's vegan.

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Honestly, I haven't had them with the cookie because cookie dough to me is where it's at. Of course.

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So these are the vials that they sent.

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We have to collect sweat, go in the sauna.

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Definitely if we're even in the robes, we'll sweat even more.

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Are you sure we're gonna get enough sweat?

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I feel like we'd have to like, you'd have to squeeze me out to get to fill this in.

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Gluten with a sweat test?

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Yeah.

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Never heard of it.

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To get all your like, levels in your...

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To test like your arsenic.

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I've never heard of a sweat test and it just sounds gross, but we do some pretty crazy things to get the information we need.

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Especially when it comes to like, beauty and health health

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so I am definitely willing to do Kim's test to prove that I'm healthier.

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Oh shit, this is fun.

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I've never been in here.

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This is so weird.

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You're collecting sweat already?

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I'm sweating already which is great.

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I feel like my legs are sweating.

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I feel like a frigging pig.

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Yeah, your face is bright red.

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I'm fucking going down.

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I think this is good enough.

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Oh, it looks like cloudy sweat.

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Ew!

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That is disgusting.

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I'm ready to get out of here.

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You ready?

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I'm done too.

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Come on, let's go.

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You ready?

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I'm done too.

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Come on, let's go.

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This is insane.

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I've got about three drops.

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I think this test is a goof.

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Enjoy.

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Here, Kim, take our sweat.

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At least we're not drinking it, guys.

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I think your shit's poisoned with makeup.

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If we're gonna do this, let's just all get the real test.

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What is the real test?

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Wasn't this the real test?

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I'll ask my doctor, but I don't want to take false results from like sweat mixed with like makeup and spray tan.

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Oh, I get it.

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That was like exhausting.

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I think I definitely need to start drinking more water.

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Hey!

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Hi.

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Hi, guys.

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Hi, guys.

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Is this where you come all the time?

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I have to come back again later today.

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This is your spot?

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This is my spot.

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Since Kim's sweat test was an epic failure, we decided that a blood and urine test would be most accurate.

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So we are going to a doctor that I see for food allergies.

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And I ask him any health questions that I have.

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I always ask him.

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Is it a full blood test here?

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I need to know what kind of doctor this is before I'm doing any blood.

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It's like, what is this?

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This is the gluten free.

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This is the gluten free center.

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Hello, guys.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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How are you?

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I like the weekend.

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I'm Jonathan.

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Jonathan.

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How are you?

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How are you?

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Good to see you again.

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Good to see you.

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Hi.

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I see you all the time.

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So Kim has been wanting to do a health test, and we tried like a sweat thing that didn't really work.

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I just want like, because Courtney is gluten free, and I'm not.

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Yeah, I want to see who's healthier.

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You want to see who's healthier?

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Kim never believes me that I should be gluten free.

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We want to know, is this a shrink's office?

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Because we think Courtney's insane.

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We want to know what kind of doctor's office is great.

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Gluten free crackers.

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Gluten free cheese.

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You know, she's gluten free cheese.

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Dairy free cheese.

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All Courtney's really doing, which to some people see is extreme, but she's doing what she needs to do to get herself feeling as good as she can

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and being as healthy as she can.

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And I feel great.

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Good for you.

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She's done as she's growing up in a cycle.

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Pretty significant.

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Yeah.

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Okay, so we're going to measure three toxic metals.

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This is a good baseline for you.

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Is it like a needle blood test?

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Yeah.

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Meaning it's like blood off the veins or like a finger?

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No, in the arm.

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Are you scared?

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No, I just had one yesterday for something.

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You got plenty of blood.

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Let's do it.

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Let's do the blood.

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Okay.

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I'll just go first.

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No, let me just get it over with, please, because otherwise I'll have to do it.

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Trust me.

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I'll go last.

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Oh, I need to lay down when I do blood.

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Yeah, I have to lay down.

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Oh, Jonathan.

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No, I do.

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I faint sometimes.

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Oh, come on.

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I swear to God, you think I'm kidding?

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Just breathe.

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Okay.

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I'm good.

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Did it hurt, John?

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Nope.

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Z or L.

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Tender touch is what her shirt says.

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Now I'm fine.

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Woo!

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OK.

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You got a lollipop?

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So we will see if gluten-free is the way to be.

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Thank you so much.

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OK, everyone, take a cup.

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I have to pee so badly.

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What do we do with the pee?

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Anyone thirsty?

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Oh my God, we're gonna tell you.

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I know.

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Here's mine.

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On the rocks.

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Drink up.

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Cheers.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Did Kylie send you these donuts?

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She didn't send them to me, but she sent them to everyone else.

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What?

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I can't eat this, but how exciting is it to smell it?

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What's your.. oh no no no no no no. Look what I have!

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I gotta show you something, okay?

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Close your eyes!

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Close your eyes, I said!

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Do you want one?

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What do you see?

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Donutty!

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Tell us if it's good!

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Um, Dr. Burns reached out and said he has the gluten results.

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Do you want to go call him?

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Hi, Dr. Burns, it's Courtney.

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Kim is with me too.

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I told her that you had the results to our tests.

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What are you doing?

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Just tracking my mom.

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Tracking?

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Followed the shoe.

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Mom, you cannot worry about her like this.

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Let her live.

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Okay, don't you hear the show?

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Yeah.

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No trouble?

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Can't go.

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Okay.

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Ooh.

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Isn't that nice? So...

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This is only what's measured in your blood, so really looking at recent exposure.

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So if you were eating a whole bunch of fish and you started to build up mercury in your blood, it may show on a test like this.

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Not gonna show what's stored inside your cells and your body.

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This kind of test can't pick that up.

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Okay.

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That's interesting.

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Yeah, so remember, the artist making mercury, you came out flying.

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So, pretty good.

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Okay, thank you.

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You're welcome.

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Have a great day.

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Okay, thank you.

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Bye, you too.

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Okay, bye.

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I don't even understand what that means, honestly.

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The whole point of taking this test was to see who's healthier.

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One gluten-free and one not.

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We're both, like, fine.

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I am so relieved that Courtney and I both are really healthy because we just try to eat really good,

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but I feel like I don't really have the answers yet yet about her gluten-free lifestyle.

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I just don't know what the best diet for me and my family is.

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Like, honestly, I can't eat, like, just air.

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It's not.

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Did you see my scones?

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It's, like, so boring.

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That's so silly.

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What are you doing?

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Just...

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Just what?

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Just tracking my mom.

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Tracking?

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Tracking.

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Oh, that little sneak.

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What does that mean?

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So, I gave her these soles to put in her shoes, And I told her they were really good arch support and she needs to wear them all the time.

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Are they good arch support?

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Absolutely not.

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It's got a chip in it.

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Look, it shows her going from my house, followed the shoe, followed the sole.

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They're going to track.

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You're psychotic.

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I'm really smart, actually.

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It is wild that my mom has put trackers in MJ's shoe soles.

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Like, that's just invasive.

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And I think that my mom should just let her be.

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Like, she's good.

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She's smarter than all of us.

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She's getting a little too independent over there.

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And I want to make sure she's safe.

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It's my 82, almost 83-year-old mother who I want to know where she is.

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Mom, you cannot, like, worry about her like this.

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She's the one who taught us all how to be independent women.

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She can still be an independent woman.

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I can just make sure she's okay.

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Let her live.

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Mom, you cannot do this all day.

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She's fine.

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Do you know how to turn on the air conditioning?

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Courtney literally does not have one in here.

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No, no, no. Please put on the air conditioning.

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I'm begging you.

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I don't even know.

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You know.

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Look at this place.

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It's so interesting.

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It is.

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It is.

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But where's the air conditioning?

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It's not in this place. At all?

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It's so interesting.

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It's like a hut in here.

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Hi.

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It's so hot in here.

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It's a fucking oven.

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Help me.

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I should bring some ice in here and cover this place with ice.

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That's a good idea.

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So the scientist Dr. Rhonda is going to come and meet us

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and tell us all about like gluten-free and how it affects our bodies.

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Do you want to hear about that?

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After all the back and forth with Courtney, we decided to do the smart thing and reach out to an expert on nutrition.

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There's just so much conflicting info out there

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that it's really hard to know who to trust and what you should really be eating.

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Hi!

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Hi!

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How are you?

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Doing pretty good, how are you?

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I'm Courtney.

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So I hope that she just, you know, can help give us all the information we need.

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So I was reading about an article that said that gluten-free can actually be more harmful for you.

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And I feel like there's always fads, there's always stuff going on.

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Well, it can be right, right?

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Yeah, I mean, there's...

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Let's listen to the professional.

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Let's.

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No, because...

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I actually know the study you were referring to, and they found that people that ate gluten-free diets had,

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like, twice as much arsenic and like 70% more mercury in their blood.

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But I was telling Kim just being gluten-free is not unhealthy.

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It's like if you're gluten-free and just eating a lot of processed foods, which gluten-free are not, that's just not good anyways.

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Exactly.

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Gluten-free diets have become such a fad that people are just buying all this like...

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Gluten-free.

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Packaged, yeah.

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And a lot of times what people do is they'll substitute rice flour.

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And rice bioaccumulates mercury and arsenic.

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In my mind when I read this study, what I started to think about was what about all the people eating rice like in China or Japan? For breakfast.

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Yeah, so this is kind of a field of study I'm like obsessed with.

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It's called nutrigenomics where basically like thousands of years ago people come from different parts of the world.

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And you weren't really traveling much then.

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So you kind of like were beholden to the food that you could grow in that region, right?

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And the theory is that people have similar genes but we have different variations in these genes.

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And so some people can process carbs better, some people can process fat better, some people can process lactose better, gluten, like things like that.

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So basically, eat everything in moderation because we're fucked at some point.

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Yeah, you can't win either way.

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But you can sweat this stuff out too.

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You sweat mercury, arsenic, all these heavy metals.

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Really?

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Like the steam?

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I didn't know that.

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Yeah, steam room, sauna, exercise.

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Sitting in this room.

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Right, I think I just lost like 13 ounces of pat-mere.

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I just turned to the air on.

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I'm so sorry.

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It's so hot in here.

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But there is no benefit to eating gluten for anybody, right?

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The only benefit is that most of the foods that gluten is found in have a lot of fiber.

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Okay.

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And so the fiber is so damn important.

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But there are things you can do to counter it.

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Other food sources of fiber include vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts.

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I'm gonna look into my fiber and how much I'm getting.

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Yeah.

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It really makes a difference.

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From this experience, I've definitely learned that it's just not that simple.

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There isn't a perfect science, and my lifestyle is working for me, and Courtney's lifestyle is working for her.

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Are you gluten-free?

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I try to eat a diet that's mostly like whole foods.

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Like, I try to avoid the processed foods and packaged foods and all that.

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And so it sort of ends up being mostly gluten-free.

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Yeah.

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So I'll eat like chicken, I eat steak, I eat salmon.

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But I also like eat like a vegetarian because I eat so many vegetables and like wide variety.

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Ugh, I wish I could do that.

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I just, like, can't eat.

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All I'm eating right now is vegetables, fruit, and protein.

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Aren't you starving?

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It's so hard for me.

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Once you start doing it, though, and, like, once you...

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Yeah, once you get used to it, like, it takes...

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I would say it takes two weeks to really get used to it.

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Cool.

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I'm starving.

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You are?

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Yeah.

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Um...

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Do we have any other questions?

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No, just how fast can you get a pizza over here?

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Thank you so much for coming out.

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Thank you.

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